The trend for higher corporate profits is set to continue in the foreseeable future.If house prices are allowed to come down further, to a level that will recreate the pent up demand, then buyers will come back in droves and the housing inventory will come down rapidly.

This will help homebuilders take on new workers which in turn will help other industries...thus, there will be less jobless claims.

Cheap house prices will create the demand, not extra stimulus to keep prices artificially too high.

When the fear dissipates, interest rates will start to rise faster than they went down.America leads the world in consumerism and they are catching on very fast.

The world is fast becoming a consumerism supermarket and nothing will be able to stop the strong force of material desires.